Timeline: New Beginnings and El Paso ISD

El Paso Independent School District officials made it easy for a company that is now part of a federal corruption investigation to get and keep $3.2 million in contracts over a five-year period.

New Beginnings of Texas Inc. -- a little-known company run by Cirilo "Chilo" Madrid and Ruben "Sonny" Garcia -- skipped the administrative process and pitched a dropout recovery pilot project directly to the school board with the help of a trustee.